Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) is a social movement of the indigenous Ogoni people of the central Niger Delta in Nigeria. Founded by environmentalist and democracy activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, MOSOP had 11 member groups and 700,000 followers, and the group supported Ogoni cultural rights and self-determination. Saro-Wiwa was executed in 1995 on trumped-up charges, as he was a critic of Sani Abacha's dictatorship. However, his movement lived on, and Royal Dutch Shell gave his family $15,500,000 in an out-of-court settlement regarding its culpability in his death.